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#Newspaper
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
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內地「人臉識別」漸普及 帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車 驗證僅需10秒
在內地，出門沒帶錢或信用卡，你都可以暢通無阻，皆因內地近年大力發展人工智能（AI）產業，以人臉識別技術，靠「刷臉」就能買到車票、乘地鐵，以至到商店購物，便利大眾生活。連年輕人愛用的拍照手機程式，都應用了人臉識別，這個技術在日常中可謂無孔不入。隨技術而來的，是上千萬計的鏡頭在公眾地方湧現。令人擔心，當局會利用技術監控人民一舉一動，私隱盡失，活現著名小說《一九八四》中「老大哥正看着你」的世界。記者：梁爽爽 編輯：張衍禎 攝影：張衍禎
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#MassSurveillance
Facial Recognition System for Uyghurs Identification, Alibaba: Ethnic Marking Function Has Been Removed
One of the leading technology companies in China Alibaba developed a facial recognition system, which was revealed a few days ago that it can identify Uyghurs in Xinjiang, arousing doubts from outsides. Alibaba announced in a statement today (18th December) that they will no longer allow its products to target and identify specific ethnic group again. They also feel "dismayed" that the facial recognition system includes ethnic recognition function, and the ethnic recognition function has already been deleted in all products.
Although AI technology has brought lots of life benefits, there are also opportunities to be abused and even violate human rights. IP Video Market (IPVM) discovered on the website of Alibaba that it demonstrates the function of the facial recognition system for Uyghurs or other minorities, with detail instructions for use. The website introduced that the user can easily upload the pictures or videos, and the system then can determine whether people in the photos or videos are Uyghurs. However, after IPVM inquired, that related information has already been deleted by Alibaba.
Source: Stand News #Dec18
https://bit.ly/34GCBfh
#China #Alibaba #Uyghurs #minority #Freedom #humanrights #IPVM #Facialrecognition
Facial Recognition System for Uyghurs Identification, Alibaba: Ethnic Marking Function Has Been Removed
One of the leading technology companies in China Alibaba developed a facial recognition system, which was revealed a few days ago that it can identify Uyghurs in Xinjiang, arousing doubts from outsides. Alibaba announced in a statement today (18th December) that they will no longer allow its products to target and identify specific ethnic group again. They also feel "dismayed" that the facial recognition system includes ethnic recognition function, and the ethnic recognition function has already been deleted in all products.
Although AI technology has brought lots of life benefits, there are also opportunities to be abused and even violate human rights. IP Video Market (IPVM) discovered on the website of Alibaba that it demonstrates the function of the facial recognition system for Uyghurs or other minorities, with detail instructions for use. The website introduced that the user can easily upload the pictures or videos, and the system then can determine whether people in the photos or videos are Uyghurs. However, after IPVM inquired, that related information has already been deleted by Alibaba.
Source: Stand News #Dec18
https://bit.ly/34GCBfh
#China #Alibaba #Uyghurs #minority #Freedom #humanrights #IPVM #Facialrecognition
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As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too
The website of Alibaba, one of the world’s most valuable internet companies, taught its corporate customers how they could detect members of a minority group with its facial recognition software. The feature was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories, the website said.
After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces and declined to explained why information of this feature had been included official documentation of its software.
Source: New York Times #Dec16
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html?referringSource=articleShare
#Alibaba #China #FacialRecognition #Muslim
The website of Alibaba, one of the world’s most valuable internet companies, taught its corporate customers how they could detect members of a minority group with its facial recognition software. The feature was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories, the website said.
After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces and declined to explained why information of this feature had been included official documentation of its software.
Source: New York Times #Dec16
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html?referringSource=articleShare
#Alibaba #China #FacialRecognition #Muslim
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This shit seriously need more attention. Seriously the worst offender are going to set the rules? And everyone who's involved in purchasing these CCTV camera needa make sure they don't buy from these terrible companies!
#uyghurlivematter #uyghurgenocide #china #beijing #CCTV #surveillance #hikvision #1984 #bigbrotheriswatchingyou #facialrecognition #AI #fuckCCP #boycottchina #english #diyms
#uyghurlivematter #uyghurgenocide #china #beijing #CCTV #surveillance #hikvision #1984 #bigbrotheriswatchingyou #facialrecognition #AI #fuckCCP #boycottchina #english #diyms
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A popular Chinese restaurant chain, #Haidilao, is denying accusations that it sends surveillance footage from overseas locations back to China. It also denies using #FacialRecognition with footage of its customers.
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Suspecting EVERYONE is a sign of weakness. Surveilling everyone is a sign of fear! And #CCP is calling this stability? It looks more like a crisis waiting for a trigger...
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#China #surveillance #Uyghurs #CCTV #Facialrecognition #biometricdata #english #diyms
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#China #surveillance #Uyghurs #CCTV #Facialrecognition #biometricdata #english #diyms
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#CCP is using #GeorgeOrwell’s warning like a guidebook. We all know that excessive gaming is not good. But since when is it the govt’s business to spy on teens?!
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#gaming #onlinegame #telescreen #nineteeneightyfour #facialrecognition #english #diyms #yoda
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#gaming #onlinegame #telescreen #nineteeneightyfour #facialrecognition #english #diyms #yoda
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Sometimes one wonders if #XiJinping read #GeorgeOrwell and did everything #Orwell warned the world about.
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On the #telescreen, Orwell wrote: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely" and "the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it."
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#uyghurs #uyghurgenocide #AI #facialrecognition #surveillance #digitalsurveillance
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On the #telescreen, Orwell wrote: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely" and "the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it."
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#uyghurs #uyghurgenocide #AI #facialrecognition #surveillance #digitalsurveillance